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Interview with Alicia Markova
- Title
- Interview with Alicia Markova [sound recording]
- Author
- Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004.
- Publication
- 1993.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | reel 2 | Audio | Restricted use | *MGZTC 3-1749 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | reel 1 | Audio | Restricted use | *MGZTC 3-1749 (sound cassette) reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-1749 (transcript) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 sound cassettes (90 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Ms. Markova discusses first meeting George Balanchine in 1924; Serge Diaghilev's desire to have her dance at age ten in Aurora's wedding; her early influences; Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska; joining Diaghilev's company at age 14; the differences in classes taught by Astaf'eva Serafima, Nikolaĭ Legat, and Enrico Cecchetti; being coached in Swan lake by Mathilde Kchessinska; Balanchine re-choreographing the mime scene in Swan lake's act 2; Pierina Legnani's White act solo; dancing in Balanchine's L'enfant et les sortilèges and Rossignol [The song of the nightingale], and the difficulty of Stravinsky's music for the latter; dancing in the Monte Carlo opera ballet for Balanchine; Balanchine's changes in Nijinska's Aurora's wedding; Balanchine's early acrobatic choreography; and performing in Balanchine's La chatte.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Subjects
- Song of the nightingale (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Cecchetti, Enrico, 1850-1928
- Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972
- Ballets russes
- Chatte (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Markova-Dolin Ballet Company
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Biches (Choreographic work : Nijinska)
- Enfant et les sortilèges (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
- Seventh symphony (Choreographic work : Massine)
- Balanchine, George
- Swan lake (Choreographic work)
- Karinska, Barbara
- Aurora's wedding (Choreographic work : Nijinska after Petipa, M)
- Note
- Interviewed by Dale Harris at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jan. 21, 1993.
- For transcript see *MGZMT 3-1749.
- Cassette 2. [Sallie Blumenthal joins the conversation briefly.] Ms. Markova discusses Balanchine's love for march music; Nijinska's Les biches; Barbara Karinska's costumes; making her own headdresses; Balanchine's works for the Ballets Russes; her first meeting with Lincoln Kirstein; the mathematical elements in Balanchine's choreography; forming the Markova-Dolin Dance Company; and the costumes for Massine's Seventh symphony.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1749
- OCLC
- NYPY96-R15
- Author
- Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Alicia Markova [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1993.
- Local Note
- Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1749.Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1749.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Added Author
- Harris, Dale, 1928-1996. InterviewerDHCA
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1749 [Transcript]*MGZTC 3-1749 [Cassette]